ENGLISH HAYDN FESTIVAL
Bridgnorth
ENGLISH HAYDN FESTIVAL 2024
Advanced Notices: 30th Anniversary, Festival Year:
2024 Festival Week: 12th to 15th June
Celebration Concert:
Pitchford Hall, Shrewsbury.
Sunday 4th February 2024
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HAYDN & FRIENDS
A special celebration concert in the iconic Pitchford Hall. Steven Devine - fortepiano Pavel Serbin - violoncello
Enjoy a Sunday afternoon listening to music of the Classical period in the wonderful, iconic, Pitchford Hall, with an optional visit to its famous Tree House.
The guided tour starts at 2pm. The concert commences at 3pm. Tea will be served in the Library after the concert.
The eighteenth century was a time of many great inventions in the fields of exploration, construction, art, science and music, with innovations of that period still influencing our daily lives and enabling us to experience great works of art and music.
The English Haydn Festival seeks to provide an insight into the "Classical" era of music, acknowledged to be from 1745 to 1835, by staging orchestral, quartet and instrumental group performances of compositions by Joseph Haydn together with those of his friends and pupils such as Mozart and Beethoven. This was an innovative period of time which ranged from the mid eighteenth century works by C.P.E. Bach, to the nineteenth century compositions of Felix Mendelssohn.
FESTIVAL WEEK CONCERTS at ST MARY MAGDALENE CHURCH, BRIDGNORTH
St Mary Magdalene Church, with its wonderful acoustics, is set in the beautiful hill-top market town of Bridgnorth overlooking the River Severn and provides a magnificent setting for the Festival. It was designed by Thomas Telford and built in 1792 at a time when Haydn was spending his celebrated years in London.
ENGLISH HAYDN FESTIVAL 2024
HOMAGE TO HAYDN
A MAGICAL MUSICAL JOURNEY
STEVEN DEVINE & THE ENGLISH HAYDN ORCHESTRA
 STEVEN DEVINE
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STEVEN DEVINE made his London conducting debut in 2002 at the Royal Albert Hall and is now a regular performer there – including making his Proms directing debut in August 2007 with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. He has conducted the Mozart Festival Orchestra in every major concert hall in the UK and also across Switzerland. Steven is Music Director for New Chamber Opera in Oxford and with them has performed repertoire from Cavalli to Rossini. For the Dartington Festival Opera he has conducted Handel’s Orlando and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas. He is currently conductor and Artistic Advisor for the English Haydn Festival. Steven works regularly with the Norwegian Wind Ensemble, Trondheim Barokk, the Victoria Baroque Players (BC, Canada) and Arion Baroque Ensemble (Montreal).
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SOLOISTS:
PAVEL SERBIN
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JENNIFER PIKE
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EMILY WORTHINGTON
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NOTE: Concert content subject to change
HAYDN IN LONDON
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WEDNESDAY 12th JUNE 2024
Acton Round Church, 12 noon LUNCHTIME CONCERT Tea served after the concert. Hosted by Sue & Hew Kennedy THE SALOMON STRING QUARTET Simon Standage - violin Catherine Martin - violin Adam Romer - viola Andrew Skidmore - violoncello Haydn: Opus 64 No. 5 in D (The LARK) (1790) Haydn: Opus 74 No. 3 in G minor (The Rider) (1793) |
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The Salomon String Quartet, formed in 1981, is established as one of the world's leading ensembles specialising in the historical performances of the Classical string quartet repertoire.
SIMON STANDAGE is well known as a virtuoso violinist specialising in 17th and 18th-century music. Leader and soloist with the English Haydn Orchestra, he also fulfilled the same role for many years with the City of London Sinfonia. He has recorded solo and chamber music, including all of Mozart’s violin concertos with the Academy of Ancient Music. In 2008 he received a medal for services to Polish culture, was awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music in 2009, and in 2010 received the Geog Philipp Telemann Prize from the city of Magdeburg, Germany. In 1981 he was a founder of the Salomon Quartet with Micaela Comberti, Trevor Jones,and Jennifer Ward Clarke.
CATHERINE MARTIN specialises in historical violin playing, covering repertoire from the early 1600s to the end of the 19th century. She spent twelve years as a member of The English Concert under the direction of Trevor Pinnock, before leaving in 2005 to take up the post of leader of the Gabrieli Consort and Players. In 2010 Catherine was also appointed concertmaster of Die Kölner Akademie in Germany. She has been the leader of the orchestra of the Early Opera Company since its inception. Catherine was invited by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 2012 to coach the players on baroque and classical repertoire. She also runs weekend workshops and concert performances with many amateur baroque and modern chamber orchestras who wish to know more about the field of historical performance.
ADAM ROMER is a Hungarian violist who is the section leader of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. He teaches at the Birmingham Conservatoire and performs with the Salomon historical string quartet and the Folktone band. He gave a master class at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 2019.
ANDREW SKIDMORE's interest in historical performance spans from the 17th to 20th centuries. He is a member and regular guest principal of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, principal with Collegium Musicum 90 and Ex Cathedra and plays regularly as a guest principal, continuo cellist and in chamber music with groups including the Dunedin Consort, Arcangelo, Gabrieli Consort and Players, Early Opera Company, The Academy of Ancient Music, Music for Awhile, Jupiter Ensemble, Irish Baroque Orchestra, The Sixteen, Ensemble Marsyas, Taverner Consort and Players and Classical Opera Company.
GRAND OPENING ORCHESTRAL CONCERT
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WEDNESDAY 12th JUNE 2024
St Mary's Church, East Castle St, Bridgnorth. 7.30pm EVENING CONCERT THE ENGLISH HAYDN ORCHESTRA on period instruments Conductor STEVEN DEVINE Haydn: Symphony No.30 in C (1765) Haydn: OPERA ARIAS Soloists: Ana Beard Fenandez - soprano Miranda Westcott - mezzo soprano Andrew Slater - bass baritone Timothy Langston - counter tenor A selection of arias from Haydn operas, "Armida" & "Orlando Paladino" FIRST HALF ARMIDA: (1784) Overture Se dal suo bracchio oppresso - Idreno (Andrew) Cara, saro fedele - Armida, Rinaldo (Miranda & Timothy) Ah si plachi il fiero Nume - Clotarco (Timothy) Torna pure al caro bene - Zelmira (Ana) Ah, non ferir: t'arresta - Armida (Miranda) Dei pietosi - Rinaldo (Timothy) Finale: Astri che in ciel splendete - Rinaldo, Armida, Idreno, Zelmira (Timothy, Miranda, Andrew, Ana) Zelmira - (Ana) Armida - (Miranda) Rinaldo & Clotarco - (Timothy) Idreno - (Andrew) Interval 30 minutes |
SECOND HALF ORLANDO: (1782) Act 1 Sinfonia Il Lavorar l'e pur la brutta cosa - Eurilla, Licone, Rodomonte (Miranda, Timothy, Andrew) Temerario! Senti e trema - Rodomonte (Andrew) Palpita ad ogni istante - Angelica (Ana) Sinfonia Ad un guardo - Alcina (Miranda) Angelica, il nome - Orlando (Timothy) Act 2 Quel tuo visetto amabile - Eurilla & Pasquale (Mianda & Timothy) Aure chete, verdi allori - Angelica (Ana) Presto risponi, indegno - Orlando, Eurilla, Pasquale (Tim, Miranda, Andrew) Anglica - (Ana) Alcina & Eurilla - (Miranda) Orlando & Licone - (Timothy) Rodomonte & Pasquale - (Andrew) Haydn: Symphony No.76 in C (1782) Soloists:
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ANA BEARD FENANDEZ opera credits during her Master’s studies at the Royal College of Music, where she graduated with Distinction, include Agnès Written on Skin; Marie La Fille du Régiment; Controller Flight; and Miss Wordsworth Albert Herring in scenes. Ana performed Rodelinda (Handel), Louise (Charpentier), and Susanna (Floyd) in Masterclasses online with Lisette Oropesa and in-person with Lynn Eustice and Amand Hekkers, and was coached by Caroline Dowdle, Michael Lloyd, Lisa Engelbrecht, Andrew Robinson and John Blakely. In her spare time, Ana is a keen chef and has a lovely community of private students ages 4 - 78. She sings in the professional quartet at St Clement Danes church on The Strand in central London, where she is also the librarian, and hosts a concert series on the second Sunday of every month, celebrating up and coming talented musicians.
MIRANDA WESTCOTT read music at Birmingham University and studied performing on English National Opera’s course ‘The Knack’. Her studies continued privately with Jacqueline Bremar before attending the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. She gained a distinction on the Masters of Music course in 2005 with Robert Dean as her teacher and became a Samling Scholar in 2009. She recently completed eight months intensive work at Dennis O’Neill’s Cardiff International Academy of Voice.
TIMOTHY LANGSTON read Music at the University of Manchester and latterly at the Royal Northern College of Music. He set up Manchester Opera Ensemble and has since directed Menotti’s radio opera The Old Maid and the Thief and Britten’s The Turn of the Screw. Timothy previously sung with Opera North, European Opera Center, the Gabrieli Consort and British Youth Opera, as well as taking the role of an Apostle in Elgar’s The Apostles with The Hallé under the baton of Sir Mark Elder.
ANDREW SLATER has for more than a quarter of a century been singing principal roles with the UK opera companies - also sometimes in Europe and America. Thanks to the solid singing technique provided by the Royal Northern College Music in the 1980s his voice has remained fresh as the odd grey hair has arrived, and he now looks and sounds ideal for the low voice roles of nobility or malevolence which abound in the repertoire. He is also good as the fat funny bloke. There is, in fact a role to suit him in almost every opera. He is eternally good-humoured - taking as a blessing that his job is the activity he would do for fun around a conventional career. Being married to a soprano whose international career allows him to travel the world in style, and teaching a few students at the University of Huddersfield puts glorious icing on his cake.
THE REVOLUTIONARY WIND MACHINE
THURSDAY 13th JUNE 2024
St Mary's Church, East Castle St, Bridgnorth. 12.30pm
LUNCHTIME CONCERT
THE REVOLUTIONARY WIND MACHINE on period instruments
Mark Baigent - oboe
Cait Walker - oboe
Emily Worthington - clarinet
Richard Bayliss - horn
Claire Penkey - horn
Robert Percival - bassoon
Russell Gilmore - trumpet
Rosey Moon - bass
Krommer: Partita op. 45 No. 3 in Bb (1803)
Haydn: The Creation. (excerpts) arr. Georg Druschetzky
Haydn: The Oxford Symphony. arr. Josef Triebensee
St Mary's Church, East Castle St, Bridgnorth. 12.30pm
LUNCHTIME CONCERT
THE REVOLUTIONARY WIND MACHINE on period instruments
Mark Baigent - oboe
Cait Walker - oboe
Emily Worthington - clarinet
Richard Bayliss - horn
Claire Penkey - horn
Robert Percival - bassoon
Russell Gilmore - trumpet
Rosey Moon - bass
Krommer: Partita op. 45 No. 3 in Bb (1803)
Haydn: The Creation. (excerpts) arr. Georg Druschetzky
Haydn: The Oxford Symphony. arr. Josef Triebensee
MARK BAIGENT tours extensively throughout Europe, America and the Far East, performing for festivals, music societies and radio with ensembles including the Sixteen, English Baroque Soloists, The Academy of Ancient Music, and his two chamber groups, the Denner Ensemble and Pipers 3 oboe trio.
CAIT WALKER, a founder member of Northern Baroque, specialises in period performance on the oboe. She has played with the country’s leading ensembles including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the 18th Century Concert Orchestra, Kings Consort, Florilegium, Gabrielli Consort, and the Academy of Ancient Music.
EMILY WORTHINGTON is one of the outstanding period-instrument performers-scholars of her generation. Equally at home playing music from Handel and Mozart to Messaien and Hindemith on historical instruments from her own substantial collection, Emily’s performances and research activities cover a wide range of repertoire and topics from c.1750-1950.
Emily is in great demand as an orchestral clarinetist with leading period orchestras around the world, including the Gabrieli Consort and Players, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestre de Champs-Elysees, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, the Kings Consort, and Spira Mirabilis. During 2018-19 she will be playing guest principal with Concerto Copenhagen, the Academy of Ancient Music, and the Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra.
Emily is in great demand as an orchestral clarinetist with leading period orchestras around the world, including the Gabrieli Consort and Players, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestre de Champs-Elysees, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, the Kings Consort, and Spira Mirabilis. During 2018-19 she will be playing guest principal with Concerto Copenhagen, the Academy of Ancient Music, and the Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra.
RICHARD BAYLISS is a founding member of the Galliard Ensemble Wind Quintet, and is a regular performer with many of the UK’s leading chamber ensembles and chamber Orchestras. Richard also works regularly with many of the UK’s leading Symphony Orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia and BBC Orchestras, and has performed as guest principal with Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Gulbenkian Orchestra, and the Taipei Symphony Orchestra.
CLARE PENKEY studied at the Royal Northern College of Music where she was introduced to the world of baroque and classical horns. She works with a variety of groups including The Academy of Ancient Music, London Handel Orchestra, The OAE, Gabrieli Ensemble, Hanover Band. Clare also teaches brass and piano.
ROBERT PERCIVAL performs extensively on historical bassoons and contrabassoons with many of the leading early instrument groups across Europe, including the OAE, the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, and Ensemble Pygmalion, and co-directs Boxwood & Brass, a Harmonie specialising in wind music of the 18th and 19th century. He is also a leading specialist in historical practices in editing, arranging and orchestration, in particular for wind instruments, which formed the focus of his doctoral research.
RUSSELL GILMORE has performed and recorded with some of the finest period instrument ensembles, including the Academy of Ancient Music, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, The English Concert, The Gabrieli Consort, Solomon's Knot, Les Talens Lyriques, the Taverner Consort, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Orchestra of the 18th Century and Vox Luminis.
RUSSELL GILMORE has performed and recorded with some of the finest period instrument ensembles, including the Academy of Ancient Music, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, The English Concert, The Gabrieli Consort, Solomon's Knot, Les Talens Lyriques, the Taverner Consort, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Orchestra of the 18th Century and Vox Luminis.
ROSIE MOON studied with Peter Buckoke at the Royal College of Music and subsequently with Mirella Vedeva and Alberto Bocini at Geneva Conservatoire where she also had regular classes with Franco Petracchi.
She has played as principal bass under Bernard Haitink, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Wilson and Sir Roger Norrington.
She has played as principal bass under Bernard Haitink, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Wilson and Sir Roger Norrington.
THE CONSONE QUARTET
THURSDAY 13th JUNE 2024
St Mary's Church, East Castle St, Bridgnorth. 7.30pm
EVENING CONCERT
THE CONSONE QUARTET
Agata Daraskaite - violin
Magdalena Loth-Hill - violin
Elitsa Bogdanova - viola
George Ross - violoncello
Haydn: Quartet in F# minor Opus 50 N0.4 (1787)
Beethoven: Quartet in F minor Opus 95 "Serioso" (1810)
Czernt: Quartet in A minor (
St Mary's Church, East Castle St, Bridgnorth. 7.30pm
EVENING CONCERT
THE CONSONE QUARTET
Agata Daraskaite - violin
Magdalena Loth-Hill - violin
Elitsa Bogdanova - viola
George Ross - violoncello
Haydn: Quartet in F# minor Opus 50 N0.4 (1787)
Beethoven: Quartet in F minor Opus 95 "Serioso" (1810)
Czernt: Quartet in A minor (
AGATA DARASKAITE Lithuanian-Polish violinist Agata started playing the violin at the age of six and made her solo debut four years later. A prize winner of ten national and international competitions Agata moved to England to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School in 2003. Since then she has been performing solo and chamber music across the UK and Europe. In 2009 she performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of the LPO's "Between two worlds: Alfred Schnittke" Festival with Valdimir Jurowski conducting. In 2012 as a RCM Concerto Competition winner, Agata performed Berg's violin concerto with the RCM Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Edward Gardner.
MAGDALENA LOTH HILL studied at the Royal College of Music with Itzhak and Laura Samuel and later took up baroque violin with Adrian Butterfield and Lucy Russell. She graduated in 2013 with first-class honours and in 2015 gained a Master's degree with Distinction. Magdalena has toured Europe, the United States and Bolivia where her two solo recitals, as 'Artist of the Festival', officially opened the 2016 Misiones de Chiquitos Festival. She has performed at all the well known London Music Halls, and Buckingham Palace.
MAGDALENA LOTH HILL studied at the Royal College of Music with Itzhak and Laura Samuel and later took up baroque violin with Adrian Butterfield and Lucy Russell. She graduated in 2013 with first-class honours and in 2015 gained a Master's degree with Distinction. Magdalena has toured Europe, the United States and Bolivia where her two solo recitals, as 'Artist of the Festival', officially opened the 2016 Misiones de Chiquitos Festival. She has performed at all the well known London Music Halls, and Buckingham Palace.
ELITSA BOGDANOVA moved to London from Bulgaria in 2007 to complete her degree at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, studying with Alexander Zemstov and Rachel Roberts, and at the same time developed an interest in historical performances with Jane Rogers and Pavlo Beznosiuk. Elitsa has performed on period instruments with ensembles such as the Academy of Ancient Music, and as principal violinist of La Serenissima, specialists in Venetian music. In 2013 Elitsa co-created the Bulgarian interdisciplinary Festival '180 Deg', which features a variety of chamber music and other art forms.
ELITSA BOGDANOVA moved to London from Bulgaria in 2007 to complete her degree at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, studying with Alexander Zemstov and Rachel Roberts, and at the same time developed an interest in historical performances with Jane Rogers and Pavlo Beznosiuk. Elitsa has performed on period instruments with ensembles such as the Academy of Ancient Music, and as principal violinist of La Serenissima, specialists in Venetian music. In 2013 Elitsa co-created the Bulgarian interdisciplinary Festival '180 Deg', which features a variety of chamber music and other art forms.
GEORGE ROSS is a British cellist, specialising in period instrument performances, having completed his Master's studies at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague where he received lessons from Jaap ter Linden. Having attained a first-class honours for his Bachelor of Music degree at the Royal College of Music, George has worked with groups such as The King's Consort, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Arcangelo, the Hanover Band. George has performed as a solo artist at Wigmore Hall.
GEORGE ROSS is a British cellist, specialising in period instrument performances, having completed his Master's studies at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague where he received lessons from Jaap ter Linden. Having attained a first-class honours for his Bachelor of Music degree at the Royal College of Music, George has worked with groups such as The King's Consort, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Arcangelo, the Hanover Band. George has performed as a solo artist at Wigmore Hall.
SCHUBERT OCTET
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FRIDAY 14th JUNE 2024
St Mary's Church, East Castle St, Bridgnorth. 12.30pm LUNCHTIME CONCERT THE CONSONE QUARTET & MEMBERS OF THE ORCHESTRA Agata Daraskaite - violin Magdalena Loth-Hill - violin Elitsa Bogdanova - viola George Ross - violoncello Emily Worthington - clarinet Richard Bayliss - horn Robert Percival - bassoon Mike Escreet - bass Schubert: Octet in F D.803 (1824) The Octet was commissioned by the renowned clarinetist Ferdinand Troyer and came from the same period as two of Schubert's other major chamber works, the 'Rosamunde' and 'Death and the Maiden' string quartets.
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THE CONSONE's education work remains a core interest to the group, having worked with students at the Royal College of Music in London, Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, as Hans Keller fellows for 2020-2022.Their debut recording explored music by Haydn and Mendelssohn and was described by The Strad as an album “that instantly leaps out of the stereo at you as something special.” In 2022 they launched a new partnership with Linn Records, beginning with the complete cycle of Mendelssohn’s string quartets. The first album, released in Spring 2023 and featuring both the ‘1823’ and Op. 44 No. 3 quartets, has been described as ‘top-notch’ (Allmusic) and ‘exquisite’ (Pizzicato).
ROBERT PERCIVAL trained as a modern bassoonist at the Birmingham Conservatoire and at the Royal Northern College of Music, Robert Percival began playing historical bassoons and contrabassoons in 2001. He now performs repertoire from Bach to Brahms and Mahler with many leading early instrument groups, including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in London and the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées in France.
EMILY WORTHINGTON studied modern and historical clarinets at the University of York, the Royal College of Music and the Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes in France. Her teachers have included included Lesley Schatzberger, Alan Hacker, Tim Lines, Barnaby Robson, Colin Lawson, Jane Booth and Lorenzo Coppola. She was previously the recipient of an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award (Music Preserved/University of York) and an Edison Visiting Research Fellow at the British Library. In 2014 she was selected to participate in the BBC New Generation Thinkers workshops.
RICHARD BAYLISS has performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the fields and the Taipei Symphony Orchestra. Richard has always had a keen interest in early music, and as a natural horn player he is principal with the Gabrieli Consort and Players, and has performed as guest principal with Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, London Handel Orchestra, Hanover Band, and the Academy of Ancient Music.Richard is also a regular performer in the West End, and has held positions with many shows, including Shrek, The Sound of Music, and Jesus Christ Superstar, and is a deputy on many of the current west end musicals.
MIKE ESCREET throughout his career he has played with various chamber music and baroque ensembles, and in the late 70s the Legrand Ensemble made the decicion to play on period instruments, so he began to investigate how an 18th century bass might have been set up. He was fortunate to find an early 18th century bass (in Kendal Milne's department store!) which he altered back to something like its former state, and in 2007 left the BBC to concentrate on period performance.
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HOMAGE TO HAYDN
FRIDAY 14th JUNE 2024
St Mary's Church, East Castle St., Bridgnorth. 7.30pm
EVENING SYMPHONY CONCERT
THE ENGLISH HAYDN ORCHESTRA on period instruments
Conductor STEVEN DEVINE
Soloists:
Jennifer Pike - violin
Pavel Serbin - violoncello
Haydn: Symphony No. 94 in G (1791)
J. C. Bach: Concertante in B (1786)
Interval 30 minutes
Tricklir: Cello concerto in G (1783)
Haydn: Symphony No. 103 in Eb (1795)
St Mary's Church, East Castle St., Bridgnorth. 7.30pm
EVENING SYMPHONY CONCERT
THE ENGLISH HAYDN ORCHESTRA on period instruments
Conductor STEVEN DEVINE
Soloists:
Jennifer Pike - violin
Pavel Serbin - violoncello
Haydn: Symphony No. 94 in G (1791)
J. C. Bach: Concertante in B (1786)
Interval 30 minutes
Tricklir: Cello concerto in G (1783)
Haydn: Symphony No. 103 in Eb (1795)
JENNIFER PIKE MBE first gained international recognition in 2002, when, aged 12, she became the youngest-ever winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the youngest major prizewinner in the Menuhin International Violin Competition. Aged 15 she made acclaimed débuts at the BBC Proms and Wigmore Hall. Jennifer was invited to become a BBC New Generation Artist (2008-10), she won the inaugural International London Music Masters Award and became the only classical artist ever to win the South Bank Show/Times Breakthrough Award. Passionate about helping young people from all backgrounds enhance their lives through music, she was recently invited to become an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust and Foundation for Children and the Arts, and patron of the Lord Mayor’s City Music Foundation
PAVEL SERBIN is a performer on the violoncello and viola da gamba. He is a teacher at the Moscow Conservatoire, a founder of the ensemble A la Russe, and both soloist and Artistic Director of the orchestra Pratum Integrum. Born in Moscow, now living in Sopron, Hungary, not far from Haydn's birthplace, Pavel graduated from the Gnessin Music School where he studied with honoured culture worker Vera Birina, at the Moscow Conservatoire, where among his teachers were professors Dmitry Miller (violoncello), Alexander Rudin (chamber music) and Alexander Galkovsky (quartet). He has also attended classes at the Royal Academy of Music in The Hague taught by Jaap ter Linden (baroque cello) and Wieland Kuijken (viola da gamba). Pavel has won prizes at the Bruges Early Music Competition 1999, as part of the Gassenhauer Trio and the competitions Premio Bonporti and Van Wassenaar 2000, in a duet with Olga Martynova. His has written a Ph.D. thesis on cello music composed in Russia from the late 18th to early 19th centuries.
THE ENGLISH HAYDN PIANO TRIO
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SATURDAY 15th JUNE 2024 St Mary's Church, East Castle St., Bridgnorth. 12.30pm LUNCHTIME CONCERT THE ENGLISH HAYDN PIANO TRIO. on period instruments Simon Standage - violin Pavel Serbin - violoncello Steven Devine - fortepiano NOTE. Concert details to be added. |
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STEVEN DEVINE, in addition to his numerous performances on harpsichords, Steven enjoys a busy career as a music director and keyboard player working with some of the finest musicians. His fortepiano performances include chamber music with Ensemble Galant and the Fitzwilliam Quartet as well as conducting new productions with New Chamber Opera and Opera Restored. He toured to the USA, where he played the complete Brandenburg Concertos with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
SIMON STANDAGE is well known as a violinist specialising in 17th and 18th-century music. As well as the many recordings he made with The English Concert (including Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, nominated for a Grammy award) his extensive discography includes the Academy of Ancient Music, Collegium Musicum 90, of which he is director, and the Salomon String Quartet, which he founded in 1981. In 2010 he received the Georg Philipp Telemann Prize from the city of Magdeburg.
PAVEL SERBIN has performed with the Academy of Ancient Music led by Christopher Hogwood and Paul Goodwin with the orchestra Moderntimes_1800, the Bergen Barokk ensemble, and others. Since 2008 he has taken the role of conductor and under his direction Pratum Integrum has performed symphonies by Haydn, Antonio Rosetti and Johann Baptist Vanhal, as well as Yevstigney Fomin’s melodrama Orfeo ed Euridice.
GRAND FINALE SYMPHONY CONCERT
SATURDAY 15th JUNE 2024
St Mary's Church, East Castle St., Bridgnorth. 7.30pm
EVENING CONCERT
THE ENGLISH HAYDN ORCHESTRA on period instruments
Conductor: STEVEN DEVINE
Soloists: Emily Worthington - clarinet
Jennifer Pike - violin
Haydn: Symphony No. 84 in Eb (1786)
Weber: Clarinet Concerto No.1 in Bb (1811)
Interval 30 minutes
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A (1775)
Haydn: Symphony No. 102 in Bb (1794)
St Mary's Church, East Castle St., Bridgnorth. 7.30pm
EVENING CONCERT
THE ENGLISH HAYDN ORCHESTRA on period instruments
Conductor: STEVEN DEVINE
Soloists: Emily Worthington - clarinet
Jennifer Pike - violin
Haydn: Symphony No. 84 in Eb (1786)
Weber: Clarinet Concerto No.1 in Bb (1811)
Interval 30 minutes
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A (1775)
Haydn: Symphony No. 102 in Bb (1794)
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EMILY WORTHINGTON is one of the outstanding period-instrument performers-scholars of her generation. Equally at home playing music from Handel and Mozart to Messaien and Hindemith on historical instruments from her own substantial collection, Emily’s performances and research activities cover a wide range of repertoire and topics from c.1750-1950.
Emily is in great demand as an orchestral clarinetist with leading period orchestras around the world, including the Gabrieli Consort and Players, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Orchestre de Champs-Elysees, Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, the Kings Consort, and Spira Mirabilis. During 2018-19 she will be playing guest principal with Concerto Copenhagen, the Academy of Ancient Music, and the Australian Romantic and Classical Orchestra. Emily also holds the post of Lecturer in Music Performance and Head of Woodwind at the University of Huddersfield, where she co-directs the Reserach Centre in Performance Practices (ReCePP). Emily is regularly invited to coach on orchestral and chamber music programmes, including the Jeune Orchestre de l’Abbaye in France, and runs an annual wind music weekend for adults at Benslow Music. |
JENNIFER PIKE MBE has played in concerts and recitals in major venues all over the world, following her success in the BBC Young Musician of the Year. In July 2005, at the age of 15, Jennifer took part in the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, and in the same year made her evening recital debut in the Wigmore Hall, both to great critical acclaim.
Jennifer works with charities across the UK, and is an acting ambassador for The Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts, The Prince's Trust, London Music Masters, City Music Foundation and The Wellspring in her home town of Stockport.
Jennifer has been recognised for services to Classical Music in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. She said ‘I am very honoured and in these hard times I will continue to strive to save the arts in the UK as the healing power of music is needed now more than ever’.
JENNIFER PIKE MBE has played in concerts and recitals in major venues all over the world, following her success in the BBC Young Musician of the Year. In July 2005, at the age of 15, Jennifer took part in the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, and in the same year made her evening recital debut in the Wigmore Hall, both to great critical acclaim.
Jennifer works with charities across the UK, and is an acting ambassador for The Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts, The Prince's Trust, London Music Masters, City Music Foundation and The Wellspring in her home town of Stockport.
Jennifer has been recognised for services to Classical Music in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. She said ‘I am very honoured and in these hard times I will continue to strive to save the arts in the UK as the healing power of music is needed now more than ever’.
The English Haydn Festival appreciate the financial support of Festival Friends, Sponsors, Donors, and Music Trusts, who are crucial to maintaining the quality of this World Class event.
AN 18th CENTURY EXPERIENCE
THE CROFT HOTEL
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The Croft Hotel is located in St Mary's Street in the centre of Bridgnorth.
"Ideal BnB close to the centre of this iconic historic town. Owners welcoming and helpful, room comfortable and well equipped. Parking a one minute walk away in the public car park. Breakfast perfect".
CONTACT US:
The Croft Hotel
St. Mary's St
Bridgnorth
Shropshire
WV16 4DW
Phone: 01746 762416
"Ideal BnB close to the centre of this iconic historic town. Owners welcoming and helpful, room comfortable and well equipped. Parking a one minute walk away in the public car park. Breakfast perfect".
CONTACT US:
The Croft Hotel
St. Mary's St
Bridgnorth
Shropshire
WV16 4DW
Phone: 01746 762416
THE DOWN INN
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The Down Inn is located in the countryside just 5 minutes from Bridgnorth. The hotel features a restaurant and bar, and offers free on-site parking. The bedrooms offer a work desk, TV and radio.
Phone: 01746 780539
www.thedowninn.co.uk
Phone: 01746 780539
www.thedowninn.co.uk
THE ROYLE
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THE ROYLE
A modern English menu using quality fresh local produce. Phone: 01746 763445 www.theroyle.co.uk |
THE OLD CASTLE INN
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THE OLD CASTLE INN
Are pleased to provide pre-concert meals. Phone: 01746 711420 www.oldcastlebridgnorth.co.uk |
Extracts from author Neil Thomas' article in Shropshire's What's What magazine:
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